Corn-cutting device



(No Model.)

0. B. DARLEY.

CORN GETTING DEVICE. N0. 422;384. Patented Mar. 4, 1890.

i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OECELIA B. DABLEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORN-CUTTAINGVDEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 422,384, dated March 4, 1890.

' Application filed MaylB, 1889- Serial No. 319,579. (No model.) i

To 60% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CEOELIA B. DARLEY, of the city and county of Philade1phia,State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improved Corn-Cutting Device, of which the following is atrue and exact description, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved device by which the grains of green corn can be slit and removed from the cob and from the husk or skin by which they are surrounded. My device will be best understood after a description of the drawings, in which it is illustrated, and the novel features thereof are hereinafter clearly pointed out in the claim, reference being now had to the drawings, which illustrate my device in the form which I consider the best for practical use, and in which-- v Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device; Fig. 2, an end view ofthe same in about the angular position it occupies in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a front view thereof.

A is a handle; 13, a base-plate, on the front end of which are secured a number of knifeblades G O C. Preferably I provide the device with a central blade C',to act as a guiding-blade-that is, to pass between two rows of corn, while the blades 0 0, arranged on each side thereof, will, pass approximately through the middle of the rows -of corn. When this construction is used, it is advisable that the guiding-blade 0 should be somewhat shorter than the slitting-blades C O. D is a scraper situated behind the slitting-knives, and preferably made deeper than the knives themselves, as shown in the drawings. It is given the wedge-shaped form shown, so as to push out at the sides the split grains of corn scraped from the cobs, it acting somewhat like a plowshare.

I prefer tomake the plate B, which supports the knife-blades and scraper, of the heart shape shown, so that the two angles 1) and b shall be inline with the knife-blades and in the center of them, so as to afford a guide to the eye in using the corn-cutting device.

The mode'in which my improved device is to be used is obvious from a glance-at the drawings. The operator takes hold of the handle and scrapes down along the rows of corn grains, the knives slitting open the skin and the scraper pressing out the grains, and'the operation being very rapidly and completely performed.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is--= A corn-cutting device consisting of two or more knives for slittingtthe grains of corn,in combination with a wedge-shaped scraper situated in the rear of the knives, with its point toward them, and a handle, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

OEOELIA B. DARLEY,

'Witnesses:

FRANCIS T, S. DARLEY, GEORGE HOUSE. 

